JOURNAL

RISK

“Until You’re Ready To Look Foolish, You’ll Never Have The Possibility Of Being Great.”

― Cher

LET’S TALK ABOUT RISK

To Take A Risk Is To First Make A Decision, Next Is To Take Action!

Risk Is The Ability To Let Yourself Be Vulnerable.

To Embrace Discomfort, Anxiety, and Fear.It Is Seeing The Potential Value And Weighing The Foreseen BenefitsWith The Risk Of Not Doing Something.

It Is The Willingness To Attempt To Create The Life You Have Imagined And To Act On The Vision For What You Want To Create.The Real Risk Is Not Accomplishing What You Are Capable Of.

Taking A Page From Architecture And Architectural Thinking.Imagine If An Architect Like Zaha Hadid Did Not Take The Risk and Study Architecture,As An Iraqi Female, In London, In The 70’s. She Would Not Have Gone On To BeThe First Woman To Win A Pritzker Price Or To Have Designed Such Innovative, Influential Works!Or If Mies Van Der Rohe Had Never Pushed The Possibilities Of Glass And Steel.Or Said Yes To The Role Of The Bauhaus.

If Architects Were Not Risk Takers We Would Not Have A World Of Inspiration That Touches Each And Every Ones Daily Lives.

The business of running a business is a marathon not a sprint.

Characteristics to put into practice and over setbacks :

Determination - maintain outlook even in trying times

Confidence - Doing makes your more confident

“I think therefore I am”

Rene Descartes

What are we spending our mental time thinking about?

can you trace the results you are getting by the thoughts your occupying your mind with?

Practice makes perfect - if we practice our failures we will be perfect at creating them, if we doubt ourselves we will become perfectly indecisive and if we practice committing to ourselves we have a chance at being perfectly content.

A practice I have taken up is setting my mind at the start of the day. Its has profound effects on my productivity and the outcome of my day.

There will always be thousands of distractions, things that set you off, experiences large and small to derail us.

Anything from bank account alerts, to client emails, or family phone calls, the dog barking, and awaiting that pending response.

All allowing our minds to go into default mode isn’t usually

helpful to being at our best for our business!

Tips:

When our mindset shifts to its default non-productive state

……in mediation they say “simply begin again”

Before sending that email or exploding on an employee or worse a client, before pricing your work (and devaluing your contribution).

Set your mind

….in yoga they say “the way you approach one thing is the way you approach everything”